Rencurel

Identity

Rencurel (INSEE 38333) is in Isère (38), part of CC Saint-Marcellin Vercors Isère Communauté. Population 358 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/38333-rencurel

Vitality score

Vitality score 32.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 77 % of the 18,016 communes of a similar size.

Compare this with communes of a similar size. The score measures how well a place is served relative to its own size band, and larger communes score higher as a rule — so it reads meaningfully against another village, and misleadingly against a town.

Measured but not scored in this model: Market. See the methodology for why.

Services

A school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LA BALME · ECOLE PRIMAIRE LE VILLAGE). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (RENCUREL AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE RENCUREL). ^[3]

2 × Hotel (HOTEL RESTAURANT DE LA BOURNE · HOTEL LE MARRONNIER). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hairdresser, 1 × Hotel.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

A market is recorded here, but no source gives the day. ^[5]

Trajectory

Population 301 (2012) → 358 (2023): 18.9 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 270 (1990) → 358 (2023): 32.6 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 305, of which 35.1 % second homes and 9.2 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors): 4.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors): 5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors): 4.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Villard-de-Lans): 7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Rencurel): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

An average of 11 days a year at or above 30 °C and 110 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the VILLARD-DE-LANS weather station, 7.5 km away at 1,027 m; the village itself is at 803 m. ^[12]

The village sits 224 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 6.06 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at VILLARD-DE-LANS, 7.5 km away at 1,027 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 224 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 1,474 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 12.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at RENCUREL, 0.2 km away at 800 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38333/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. DATAtourisme 2025-12— https://data.datatourisme.fr/13/06b4b40b-8438-3eda-ace8-d729a0b53831— “Marché alimentaire de Rencurel”(unverified)
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38333/2012
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38333/1990
8. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38333/logement/2023
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 38225
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 38548
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 38333
12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024